The Working Mind
Author | : Juan Pascual-Leone |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780262362573 |
ISBN-13 | : 0262362570 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally, clarifying the nature of human intelligence. In The Working Mind, Juan Pascual-Leone and Janice M. Johnson propose a general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally and by doing so clarifies the nature of human intelligence. Pascual-Leone and Johnson explain "from within" (that is, from a subject's own processing perspective) cognitive developmental stages of growth, describing key causal factors that can account for the emergence of the working mind as a functional totality. Among these factors is a maturationally growing mental attention.